A bugfix release

Hibernate Validator 5.4.1.Final is a bugfix release, mostly for corner cases. 5.4.1.Final is a recommended upgrade for everyone.

Here are the most prominent bugfixes of this release:

HV-1088 - Fix a concurrency issue in validator initialization that you probably wouldn’t encounter in a normal usage - you’re supposed to use a shared ConstraintValidatorFactory which mitigates the issue

What’s next?

Bean Validation 2.0 and Hibernate Validator 6 are under active development. We will release a new alpha in the next few days.

As far as Bean Validation 2.0 is concerned, there are very interesting discussions going on about value extraction which is THE big BV 2.0 feature. Come and join us on Bean Validation website to define the future of Bean Validation.